Thought for the day - September 16, 2000

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - September 16, 2000
From: rangeroger
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 10:52 PM

We were pretty happy to see some of that"termination dust" on the mountains in Idaho. It sure slowed the fires down.

rr

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - September 16, 2000
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 10:48 PM

The changing of the seasons progresses... We have termination dust on our mountains already.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - September 16, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 02:02 PM

Well, Mbo, I hope today is nicer for you than it was one year ago! I did hear something on the radio, today, about some storms moving towards the coast, but I think it was more in line with Florida. Hope everyone stays safe, all up and down the coastline.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - September 16, 2000
From: Mbo
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 01:04 AM

My little thought of the day...it was one year ago today that Hurricane Floyd came through and devastatingly flooded Eastern North Carolina. We're still recovering.

Subject: Thought for the day - September 16, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 00 - 12:59 AM

The alchemy of nature caught my breath the other day. We've been having chilly nights. I was driving home from the eastern end of town, with the mountain at my left (south). Looked over, as I always do, to observe its many changes of face, noticed the sudden, small bits of gold. The aspens noting the change in temperature.

Struck me that nature needs no "philosopher's stone", or has the ultimate "p.s." just in her inevitable ways: coal turned to diamonds; dinosaurs turned to oil; green of leaves turned to such brilliant shades, esp. that breathtaking aspen gold. So famously beautiful, jewelers coat the real things in real gold and sell them as pins.

Then, two days later, we get slam-dunked with a jokester prank: Nature just turned the heat back up to the 90's in the daytime! Don't know what the aspens will make of that, probably slow down the inevitable glory show and kamikaze leaf dives to carpet and nurture the hope of spring's renewal.

kat